snakelike

comparative more snakelike · superlative most snakelike

1. Resembling a snake; long, thin and flexible, or waving about in a snake-like manner; snaky.

   I could, however, clearly distinguish that the swathed mummy-like form before me was that of a tall and lovely woman, instinct with beauty in every part, and also with a certain snake-like grace which I had never seen anything to equal before.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

2. figurativelyCharacteristic of or resembling a snake.

   a snakelike forked tongue

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   Skinks are lizards, but some species have lost their limbs over eons of evolution, giving them a snakelike look.

   2020 October 11, Veronique Greenwood, “How Some Skinks Lost Their Legs and Then Evolved New Ones”, in The New York Times